Not The Bookish Type Dept.

It's weird. I went looking for books in my personal library that are about the craft of writing, and realized I could barely find any. Strunk & White's The Elements Of Style, and Lawrence Block's book on storytelling, and that's about it. I know I still have my copy of Peter Elbow's Writing Without Teachers lurking around somewhere, but I can't find it. (Maybe it fell down behind something else. This happens constantly when you have books stacked two and three deep in a shelf.)

A lot of advic...